About Wim
Self-portrait
No he's no doctor but he IS a DOCumentor. The
figure in the portrait is worried about keeping track of all
his DOCuments, in this case a DOC related to a database of his
chess-endgames. Keepin track of the DOCuments, isn't that what
it's all about? I quote from my guide on HYPERTEXT MARKUP
LANGUAGE (HTML, the thing Internet pages are written in) :
"Many of the decisions you make on a site-wide level to
organize content carry over to the management of "documents",
whether they be single pages of HTML, or a collection of such
pages which cover a single topic."
"Much of the management of documents, though, is the management
of links. Hypertext is all about links -- this should
be patently obvious to most."
DOCuments and their linkage. DOCuments scattering everywhere. To get drowned in a world of documents. That's the Internet
experience. But isn't that very much like life itself? To
keep your wits about you? To integrate, to link your experiences.
Isn't life very much like maintaining a web-site? And as far as that's concerned, how
is Wim doing....? He is shifting his DOCuments around. Trying
to make sense of them. He is shuffling his links. To sum him
up in one phrase: "This site is under permanent reconstruction".
Wim Nijenhuis, April 3, 1996
wimnij@xs4all.nl
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